Subject: Re: Thanks. VS2000 applications.
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polder.ubc.kun.nl>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/18/1996 11:48:09
> From: Roger Ivie <IVIE@cc.usu.edu>
> All VS2000s have the SCSI hardware. The only thing the expansion box
> gives you is a cable with a connector to the outside world. If you can keep
> the whole thing in the box (say, by using a boot floppy (you'll have to
> boot from something the ROM knows how to boot from, unless you want to
> write a new ROM) and a 3.5" SCSI hard disk), you wouldn't need the
> expansion box.

Hm, how is the console mode on the VS/MV2000 implemented anyway?
A real CPU (and if so, can it be used for anything)? Microcode in the
normal CPU? Voodoo? Something else?

-Olaf.
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